unemployment

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The reasons for the uptick in German unemployment are not hard to find, since German exports fell back at a record rate in November - in fact seasonally and working day adjusted current-price sales exports fell back 10.6 percent from October (when they declined 0.6 percent), according to the latest data from the Federal Statistics Office.

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  1. noun The state of being unemployed, especially involuntarily.
  2. noun The percentage or number of people who are involuntarily unemployed: Unemployment has been shrinking throughout the recovery.
  3. noun Unemployment compensation.

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  • A spike in Japanese unemployment also put pressure on the currency, analysts said. —  Reuters: Top News
  • A 1\% rise in unemployment translates into a 3. 2\% rise in office vacancy rates, according to John Lonski, Chief Economist at Moody's Capital Markets. —  Daily Kos
  • But a drop in German unemployment in December will also bring to an end a string of monthly falls in the numbers out of work in the nation with both economists and the country's labour office warning that joblessness in the country will rise in the coming months. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • The reasons for the uptick in German unemployment are not hard to find, since German exports fell back at a record rate in November - in fact seasonally and working day adjusted current-price sales exports fell back 10.6 percent from October (when they declined 0.6 percent), according to the latest data from the Federal Statistics Office. —  Global Economy Matters
  • Yesterday, authorities increased the flow of public funds into their economies as a jump in Spanish unemployment and weak retail sales in the United States and Germany provided the latest proof of a severe, synchronised recession. —  ireland.com Breaking News
 

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/ənɛmˈplɔɪmənt/
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